13 h. ago Free anniversary screening of Bullet Boy coming to Ayrshire cinema

Ahead of the film's 20th anniversary release, the Astoria Cinema will be holding free screenings of cult crime drama Bullet Boy

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19 h. ago ITV I Fought The Law fans say the same thing about Sheridan Smith's accent minutes into new drama

I Fought The Law has been a huge hit with ITV viewers, but some have been unconvinced by the accents in the true crime drama

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35 h. ago The Sheridan Smith memes are distracting us from just how brilliant she really is

Smith’s ubiquitous ‘based on a true story’ dramas have become a punchline on social media, but her latest powerful turn in ‘I Fought the Law’ proves once again that she’s one of our brightest stars, says Katie Rosseinsky

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37 h. ago ITV viewers praise 'powerful' new crime drama saying it's 'best' they've ever watched

I Fought The Law launched last night on ITV starring Sheridan Smith as Ann Ming and a second instalment airs on Monday

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53 h. ago I Fought the Law review – no one does this kind of drama better than Sheridan Smith

This true crime drama about a woman who forced the government to change the law so her daughter’s killer could be jailed is totally elevated by Smith. Her brilliance turns it into genuinely moving TVIs there any comfort to be had in knowing that police incompetence is not a new phenomenon? Not really, no. But it might be all you can find to cling on to during this harrowing, heartbreaking four-part drama. I Fought the Law is based on the true story of Ann Ming ,the murder of her 22-year-old daughter Julie in 1989 and her 30-year campaign to change the double jeopardy law so Julie’s acquitted killer could be tried again for the crime.I Fought the Law has two great strengths. First, the awareness that although the overturning of a law that had existed since Magna Carta is technically the most astonishing part of Ming’s tale, it is not the most televisual. That, for better or worse, will always be the body blows she withstood, from finding her daughte...

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55 h. ago ITV I Fought the Law true story of Anna Ming's fight for justice and where Billy Dunlop is now

The true crime drama based on a mother's fight for justice, premieres on ITV

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69 h. ago I Fought The Law's Sheridan Smith left 'shaking' over 'taxing' ITV true crime drama

Sheridan Smith has opened up about her experience preparing for her latest role in ITV's new true crime drama I Fought The Law, in which she stars as Ann Ming

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5 d. ago The Thursday Murder Club declared a 'masterpiece' by audiences as it lands on Netflix

Richard Osman’s beloved crime drama has arrived

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5 d. ago Task review – Mark Ruffalo is brilliantly dynamic in sophisticated thriller from Mare of Easttown creator

There is a lot of moral and philosophical reflection to chew over in this cat-and-mouse crime drama set in rural Pennsylvania

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5 d. ago Disney Plus confirms season two premiere date for beloved crime drama

Fans will be made to wait a lot less than last time

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6 d. ago Netflix axes popular crime drama after just one season as furious fans demand 'justice' for show

Netflix fans have slammed the 'criminal decision' to cancel the show after the success of the first season earlier this summer.

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6 d. ago Netflix adds ‘brutal’ crime drama that 'gets under your skin’

The limited series is based on a Brazilian crime thriller novel

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1 week ago 'Gripping' crime thriller with Death in Paradise star streaming now

The British crime drama originally aired in 2020 and it's only 12 episodes.

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1 week ago Sheridan Smith reduced to tears in tense courtroom scenes in first look at her gritty new ITV series I Fought The Law that is based on a real

The actress, 44, has been visibly aged by costume designers as she appears in court for the new crime drama.

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1 week ago Thursday Murder Club review: Cosy crime drama will leave you in tears

Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club has finally made it to our screens, with a star-studded cast bringing this Cooper's Chase mystery to life as it lands in cinemas

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1 week ago The Thursday Murder Club review – Richard Osman bestseller provides solid, star

There’s much to enjoy in this adaptation of Osman’s ingenious book, with Helen Mirren, Ben Kingsley, Celia Imrie and Pierce Brosnan as the senior-citizen X-MenRichard Osman’s phenomenal bestseller from 2020 was an ingenious, accessible, good-natured book, which helped rebrand the English detective novel as “cosy crime”, started a celeb-copycat publishing trend and, being about four elderly people in a retirement community rising above ageist condescension to solve crimes, spoke eloquently to the shut-in frustrations and escapist yearnings of the Covid age.Now it has been adapted as a funny and likable, if slightly bland, comedy-drama for Netflix, which as one character amusingly and pre-emptively comments, feels just like a Sunday teatime TV crime drama. There is nothing new about these nostalgist leanings: Agatha Christie has after all been a solid film and TV export for more than half a century. Screenwriters Katy Brand and Suzanne Heathcote adapt the novel and director Chris Colu...

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1 week ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Mudtown: Let off a pet killer? This soft

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Are you an easy touch, a bleeding-heart liberal? Take this simple quiz to find out, based on a courtroom scene in the South Wales crime drama Mudtown.

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1 week ago The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox review – shockingly tense TV from Knox and Monica Lewinsky

The script is often dodgy, and there is no involvement from the family of murdered student Meredith Kercher, but this show that’s executive-produced by Knox and Lewinsky is an astonishing tale of justice’s flawsTwo things need to be borne in mind about The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, a new true crime drama. The first is that Knox and Monica Lewinsky – both members of “The Sisterhood of Ill Repute”, as Knox has described them in the past – are executive producers of the show. The second is that the family of Meredith Kercher, the 21-year-old British exchange student with whose murder Knox and others were charged in 2007, were not involved in the series. Her sister Stephanie said last year to the Guardian: “Our family has been through so much and it is difficult to understand how this serves any purpose.”To the first point: it is undoubtedly true that the subject of The Twisted Tale is Knox and her survival of an extraordinary and extraordinarily awful experience, and while not hagio...

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2 w. ago Misper review – mystery, melancholy and murder in a faded seaside town

A crumbling hotel is the setting for a debut feature about the uneasy aftermath of a young woman’s death, which transcends the tired tropes of the crime dramaHere is a solid first feature debut from director Harry Sherriff, an atmospheric crime drama set in a gloomy, decaying seaside town, with an eerie depiction of grief experienced by those who exist within the margins of the life of a murdered girl.The film follows Leonard (Samuel Blenkin), a meek hotel concierge who has a boyish crush on his charming 25-year-old colleague Elle (Emily Carey). Dressed in a red raincoat with short dark hair and a wry smile, Elle’s character is very much reminiscent of Jordana Bevan in Richard Ayoade’s 2010 film Submarine, as is the dry sardonic humour peppered into the script. Leonard and Elle’s exchanges are awkward yet sweet, teetering on the edge of a true connection. That is, until Elle doesn’t show up to work one day and reports of a missing person trickle through the town. The hotel staff are...

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2 w. ago Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest rages against the new but leaves him looking too old

The film-maker’s ‘reinterpretation’ of the Kurosawa crime drama rails against AI, online media and new hip-hop but can’t find much new to say“We’re jazz musicians,” the director Spike Lee recently said of his working dynamic with Denzel Washington in Highest 2 Lowest, a new crime thriller that marks the fifth collaboration between the two Oscar winners. “We respect Julie Andrews singing My Favorite Things, but when John Coltrane did it, you know, or when Miles [Davis] did his standard of My Funny Valentine, it’s a different thing.”The metaphor is no throwaway. Since Lee’s breakout on to the cultural scene in the 1980s, the Atlanta-born, Brooklyn-made auteur has been at pains to style himself as an outgrowth of old school storytelling traditions even as critics tarred him as a new-school disrupter. From She’s Gotta Have It to Chi-Raq, Lee has made the extra effort to venerate the athletes, artists and thinkers who have shaped his distinctly analog worldview. Highest 2 Lowest was mean...

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